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Country music that is good.
thebrosef:
I don't know who that is a picture of.
Patrick:
Any post-1994 Alan Jackson will probably do you (and a massive bonus if you go and listen to his song "Remember When" straight off), and you could always listen to really old George Jones, if subject matter is what's really keeping you down. I mean seriously, who can't identify with crushing heartache? If there's any country artist in this world whose music is nothing but, it is probably going to be good ol' George.
A lot of what gives country music it's charm (to me, at least) is that a lot of it is intentionally campy and hillbilly-ish in subject matter and, often times, style. Indie hipsters definitely weren't the first on the irony scene (WHAT? THEY DIDN'T DISCOVER IRONY? OH THE IRONY).
Seriously? Go watch a YouTube video of the Porter Wagoner show. Watch the ending of it. When they have an entire bluegrass band hop up onto the stage with a fiddle player dancing around like he's got a ferret in his pants, just try to tell me they're not doing that to intentionally look like idiots.
The thing about country is that it isn't a style, it's a mindset. This may come off like I'm trying to turn country into punk, but it's the truth. If you're not going out mudriding in your 4wd pickup truck with an unlocked shotgun rack in the back and several open bottles of whiskey in the cab, you are better off listening to Kenny G.
KvP:
--- Quote from: thebrosef on 03 Feb 2008, 20:25 ---I don't know who that is a picture of.
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Merle "fucking" Haggard.
thebrosef:
That actually might be the reason that I am bothered by some country music. As much as riding around in a pickup truck with some whiskey and a shotgun sounds like a hilariously good time, riding around on a tractor, holding up traffic, and then writing a song about how this somehow is something to be proud of just kind of pisses me off. And of course I can identify with heartbreak, but the mindset of deliberate hillbillyness somehow detracts from many of those lyrics for me. Hence my search for better country music.
That said, thanks for all the recommendations.
E. Spaceman:
--- Quote from: thebrosef on 03 Feb 2008, 20:12 ---Any explanations? or should I just blindly listen? Not that I won't anyway. Thanks for the suggestions.
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Uncle Tupelo and Whiskeytown were pioneers of the alt-country movement. Genres are really hard to define, but imagine people who really liked country, but they also liked punk. Now, these people took country music and stripped it of the nashville sheen, they don't really write about tractors and their guitars occasionally do more than twang (granted, most of the time it is just overdriven twang).
edit: hey, i just read your last post. Get those albums like now
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